Word: purgee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sir: I applaud your efforts to keep your readers well informed by giving wide coverage to the cultural revolution (purge) and atrocities of Red Guards on the Chinese mainland [Sept. 23].
In this way the war serves as a kind of self-executing purge of honest liberalism in Congress. Either it removes the honest liberal or it makes him dishonest, and both have the same long-range effect.
It is from this phenomenon -- the substitution of conservative and moderate Republicans for vaguely liberal Democrats -- that the supporters of Adams, Frost, and Congressional candidates Robert Scheer, Ted Weiss and Edward Keating can derive a perverse sort of optimism. The current purge of American liberalism -- so damaging in the short...
"It takes a man to pursue truth," he says, "to purge his conscience even if he gets a bullet in the head."
Whoever was leading the Red Guard purge was getting nervous about the enthusiasm of his charges. Editorials continued to advise "reason" rather than violence in Red Guard attacks on the "capitalist-bourgeois monsters" and suggested repeatedly that "rectification and production" must go together. The fall harvest is just around the...